well floopsie was trying to tell me the explosion would have no sound. which is bullshit because the videos of the atomic bomb tests have sound. also he was trying to tell me you have no control over where the missle lands. which again people talking out of their ass. that was the real argument
@floopsie666 well you can control it to some extent its not like you shoot it off and you dont know where the hell its gonna land. "oh sorry canada, we were aiming for congo.
@metalfuk1. No, that's accurate. Each city would have been hit many times over. US military bases in country areas, and aircraft carriers at sea would have been targeted too. What's less accurate is having mushroom clouds side-by-side not affected by each other's blast. Or having folks turn into skeletons (starting at 0:47).
People who call the effects in this film "cheesy" need to get a clue. It was made for TV nearly 30 years ago, there was no CGI yet. The whole purpose of this film was to demonstrate for people just what was at stake with the escalating tensions between America and the Soviet Union at the time, not to win awards. The producers did the best they could with what was available, and IMHO they did a damn fine job.
@scatteredmist well buddy its unfortunate that people like you are not in control of the highest levels of government in this world. the world would be a better place with you in charge.
The message of this movie seemed to be: confronted with Soviet belligerance in the early 1980's, the only option for the Free World was immediate and unconditional surrender.
@johncase7777 that would be stupid, cuz there is nothing to destroy, but desert, and the people are like cock roaches. they live in caves, and are impossible to kill
@johncase7777 how fucking ignorant!!! YOU HAVE ALREADY NUKED THE MIDDLE EAST. For the next 4.5 billion years Iraq will be a nuclear hot zone. Don't believe me? Check out the babies that are being born in Iraq right now. I tell you, if anyone did that to my baby, Id want to fucking murder them with my own hands.
This film made Steve Gutenberg a star! Or at least a victim of radiation poisoning, which was far more hilarious than any of the Police Academy movies.
I first saw this movie when I was like 9 or 10. It scared the hell out of me. A very dramatic movie for a young kid,but it also made me think, hey,....war like this could happen. Like one of the doctors mentioned in the movie, "Stupidity,....it has a habit of getting it's way".
Threads was better. I first saw them in 1983 and they both scared the pants off me, but then I think I would rather be under the fireball and be disintergrated than to actually survive the living hell that would ensue after a nuke.
@GRIFF77418 I believe it's something to do do with the amount of Mositure in them? i think and the amount of time and how much heat is pup to them. cheers :)
@GRIFF77418 'Never' is wrong, they do disintegrate, just at much higher energy levels than what it takes for the flesh to disintegrate. At the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings, those who were closest to the blast had literally become nothing but black marks in the ground. It's very depressing to think about.
After the destruction of the Atomic bomb,People said there was nothing worse.But yet People made something worse.Which it is known as the Hydrogen bomb.
@Zickcermacity It's surprising anyone ever does. He was being blatantly disingenuous - he was afraid that the movie would prevent nuclear war, which he thought would be the Armageddon that would result in Judgment Day.
this is how people start conflicts up by mouthing off random statments that dont even make any sense and obviously arent true and just bring more conflict and hardship to the subject this person obviously doesent know anything about and should get educated on whats going on in the world before they open their mouths.
their is a few things you need to work on 2 for example are
1. !!!THINK WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SAY BEFORE YOU SAY IT!!!
2. Learn to spell at lease you admitted that you where wrong
You know russia after all is one of the few allies with the U.S And right now it isnt a good idea to piss off one of few allies the U.S has.So follow me with this, In your country the people run the goverment by your constitution, so by that what ever you say you are speaking for your country and its opinion towards others. so by"saying qwote "if we get nuked i blame the russians they suck ball sack" your saying that you dont want us to be your ally and we should not help you when the time comes
if we get nuked i blame the russians they suck ball sack . that is y my parent put in aa nuclear / fall out shelter and enough suplies to last 10 years then it should be ok to go out and if we get nuked and russians come i am grabbing a gun and killing every last one ove them and i no i have bad spelling i cant help it dont send me messages a bout it plv thank u
@ckleinfelter Don't worry about the spelling mate but all I will say is that you have high expectations if your trying to take on the Russian Army single handed lol, is Rambo your mentor?
that was the stuff i was freaking out over as a teenager? are you kidding me? a bunch of fakeass special effects and old stock footage of an ATOMIC bomb??? i feel incredibly stupid right now....
@zatoth13 It was a made for TV movie, with a limited budget and with 1982 technology, so I think the special effects are fine in light of those constraints. The scenes of normal USA civilians not only dying during the attack but suffering from radioactive fallout and dwindling essentials afterwards remain terrifying to me at least.
Due to the film being shortened from the original four hours to 2½, several planned special-effects scenes were scrapped, although storyboards were made in anticipation of a possible "expanded" version. They included a "bird's eye" view of Kansas City at the moment of two nuclear detonations as seen from a 737 on approach, as well as simulated newsreel footage of the tactical nuclear exchanges in Germany between NATO and Warsaw Pact troops. FUCK YOU ABC
@UrNorsk1987 I agree. If the creators of the film *really* wanted to be graphic, they could've emulated the bombing of Hiroshima, especially what it did to people. Maybe throw in some stop-motion animation of people having the skin melted off their faces, like the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the aftermath scenes, they could've littered the landscape with charred skeletons, shown dazed survivors wandering aimlessly, with melted skin hanging off their bodies, eyes hanging from sockets.
This movie is pretty lame now watching it. It was a big deal in the 80s but it's a bit over dramatic (you think????) and it doesn't seem realistic like the army films. I guess they encased film cameras in these thick glass bunkers and the film managed to survived. Nuclear war is going to suck when it happens. Watch an old brit tv documentary 1965 called "The War Game". Netflix has it now. scarey, cheesy FX but has an eerie surrealism to it.
We were assigned to watch this movie when I was in HS in Vermont when it originally aired and as soon as this scene started I got so freaked out, that my friend and I said the hell with this and switched over to MTV. We were told to watch it if we could deal so I felt ok changing the channel. I still had nightmares. I've actually never seen the whole movie - it still is way too disturbing for me. Growing up during the cold war sucked.
I have seen this movie just one time and the scene that stuck out was the bomb being dropped and the people melting. That had to be the scene that they showed in the promo. Now it is stuck in my head again.
@RideMyBMW The US has 7% of its debt in China, and China is in no position to take on Russia, let alone the US. China has around twenty nukes that can actually reach the US.
I remember when this film was first broadcast, and ABC hosted an on-air panel discussion afterwards, consisting of various scientific and political luminaries. William F. Buckley criticized the production as melodramatic and poor overall, prompting Carl Sagan to respond "For once I find myself in agreement with Mr. Buckley!"
In retrospect, the out-of-date special effects makes this look rather cheesy. (Which is probably why Threads seems scarier; it didn't attempt too much, so the only thing that looks cheesy is the fashion). Still, pretty disturbing scene.
@copam07 This is, as stated in the end credits, "in all likelihood, less severe than what would happen in an actual nuclear war".
But just as bad. No, far worse. No one could be that close to an exploding nuke and just walk away like Dr. Oakes did on the highway. Everyone else was dead...why didn't he perish also? The heat and blast/overpressure alone from a 1 MT nuke at that close a distance would have definitely killed everyone in a several mile wide radius.
@copam07 MT=megaton, the amount of destructive power in a nuke as measured to the comparative force of TNT. a 1 MT nuke has as much destructive power as 1,000 tons of TNT.
Hope this answers your question! And I hope we never have to see that kind of destructive power actually used.
@riceboy1701e Hi, one megaton is actually equivalent to 1 million tons of TNT. one kiloton is equivalent to 1000 tons of TNT. Since most intercontinental warheads used to be in the range of 500 kilotons or more, we're talking about a LOT of f...ing big explosions here.
@riceboy1701e Exactly what I thought. There's no way that Oakes, cowering in his car, would walk away relatively unscathed. Yes, the special effects are dated & too over the top to take this scene seriously. Even though it was mentioned at the end that the real thing would be far deadlier than the film indicated, likely to assuage the viewers at that time in history when The Day After was filmed. The cold war was still darkly threatening in the 80's. Scary lifestyle.
@copam07 If you know of any veterans that were around the cold war era, especially during the trinity project and down at the Nevada test range at Yucca Flats, you could ask them.
I'm Born 1986.. but as I Got Older My Step Father Showed me this movie "The DayAfter" This is one of my Favorite scary Movies of All Time's And Now I'm About 25 years old.. I Always Wonder about Hollywood Made Sum of all Fears, The day After tomorrow, 2012... What About Remaking This Movie!! But Having it happen on Today's War's on Terror!!!! And What if Nuclear War Happen Today... Please Comment on this what Ask More Hollywood Film maker's on This!!! . ThankYou!!
@SaberTanker22 The "x-ray" images of the people when the nukes explode haunted me for weeks. I could not sleep after that unless I had a radio under my pillow and a light on. I *still* had nightmares. I was 13 when this was shown on ABC. My grandmother and mother both warned me to not watch it, but I did anyway.
Those were very scary times. Reagan in the White House, and had his finger on the button and ready to push it. So were the Soviets.
@riceboy1701e that, they were, scary times that is. (Don't forget the Red Dawn movie either.) Once those Minuteman III's were launched, they couldn't be called back. Who knows with the current Peacekeeper ones that they have now. Not sure if the silos with the 175 ton doors with rockets and rails are still in operative mode at the SAC bases yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. Actually, 2 keys in the silo had to be switched in unison for the missles to be launched.
OK, many people may want to make fun of this trailer / movie, without having any understanding of what this movie meant for the youth of the 80s and its impact on our young minds. It put the very realistic threat of a nuclear holocaust into images that we could only imagine. The movie was made in 1983, without computing imagery like movies today can enjoy thanks to the technology developed in the 80s. It this clear now??? What you have today, you owe to the 80s.
@Steveoqotsa You have to put it into perspective -- the movie was made in 1983 for TV viewing and it was a huge success. It put the real threat of a nuclear holocaust into perspective. I do not know if you were alive then, but I surely was and I can remember this movie very well, its impact on many young people (like myself), of the decade.
@tortoni900 I am a child of the 80's,was 12 in 83 & remember vividly the constant threat of a nuclear war....i was merely saying i believe Threads to be far superior to this (i have both on dvd).....if you haven't seen it it's well worth checking out,it is on youtube.....
Another thing that's worth a look are the "Protect & Survive" public information films that were shown in the UK in the 80's...also on yt & very scary
@Steveoqotsa No I have not seen Threads and will check it out because you say it is worth it. I do not recall any informational films here in the US like the one you mention Protect & Survive that were shown in the UK. But, the fear indeed was ever present . . . I guess that is why we also had such positive and happy music in the 80s, to get our minds off the possible ill-fate of the world should a nuclear war happen.
@tortoni900 Threads is pretty grim viewing but trust me,well worth it.Happy music yeah along with shocking hairstyles & hideous clothes.....the 80's rocked!!!
@Steveoqotsa I am totally up to the challenge! I looked here on Youtube and I do not know if I am supposed to choose Threads 1984 or Threads Part 1 -- what do you suggest? Oh yes, no doubt the 80s rocked, despite the neon colors, shocking hairstyles, etc. because everything was a reflection of one being him/herself ! the music ultra-rocked!
It's definitely shocking and vicious imagery but look on the bright side. According to this, before our skeletons crumble to ash they'll all do one last dance in unison.
@goodguysdoll Easy to say when you only view things from the perspective of someone who grew up watching films that use computer technology to create action scenes. But this is 1983 and back then you were just a newborn, correct? Do not dismiss what was created using the limited computer technology that was at that time just like you, in diapers.
Regan did somethiing that needed to be done. He showed the Russens that keeping all those countries like Poland, was a waste of money. They had to leave for the cost was to great and to protect themselves from the US was useless. We were never goiing to invade Russen. Why? There barely feeding there own people.
@Clay3613 Hey, if you have been workind with people from a different planet as long as I have and trying to keep them informed about how we are using their tec for our defence. It gets harder everyday to remember your own thoughts.
well oldtwins , the CIA way back in the 70's had already came to the conclution that communism would fail. The question is, would they go out with a whimper or a bang. Lucky for all us it was a whimper
@1:09 "Son I will shield you from the 500 million degree explosion with my body! You will be the man of the house now. Take care of your mother and sis--" Both vaporize.
I do beleieve if we had a weak democratic president back in the 80's we would have gotten attacked, but ole' Ronnie Reagan scared the shit out of the commies and instead their evil system collasped. Alot of people can thank old Ronnie for beating the communist into submission , now thats not to say that some maniac in the future may not start world war three, I believe it can and will, sooner or later happen.
@unclefixer Umm no, the Soviet Union was already in shambles starting in the 1970s. The system was so full of corruption and inequality that they didn't need anyone's help to shut them down.
@unclefixer - Their system was collapsing already....Reagan only hastened it by a matter of weeks to several months at best (if you pay attention to facts).
@mariethebest09 You have to open up your horizons my dear. Your 21st century eyes have to be thankful for the technology that developed in the 1980s -- without that, you would not be able to SEE the realistic images (and not so realistic ones), that computer animation gives you today.
@tortoni900 Oh, I know. I appreciate 80s effects for what they were at the time they were created and for their contribution in popular culture. Still, though-- after 24 years of watching buildings explode on film, I'm quite desensitized.
@mariethebest09 Your point precisely hits on the reality that the youth of today have become so desensitized to seeing images of mayhem and destruction due to the advancement of computer graphics which makes them so realistic, and that is quite alarming. As technology continues to advance and young impressionable minds get exposed to such perfection in imagery, the line that is supposed to define reality and fiction becomes way too blurred.
The problem with The Day After is the build-up to nuclear war is virtually non-existent. There is so little tension. Another problem is the nuclear attack is totally unconvincing and looks like a scene from a corny 70's disaster movie. But this film really comes alive in the war's aftermath. A scene that will always haunt me is the preacher, nearly insane with grief, giving a service to a dying congregation
This is not war, this is destroying the earth. There is no intelligence in this. No international dispute is worth all of this, nor would disputes be solved. There is no progress in this. This is not right. This is wrong. The missile launchers would die through this, then go to hell for doing it.
I remember this movie when I was growing up in the early '80's. It was really good and very educational. It would be great as a movie produced for theaters.
@directorlog what the one with matthew broderick? the one thing thisfilm does well is the scenes when bodies are vapourised - very emotive with the sounds, threads is brilliant - love the documentary element to it
@4rlorenti as I say the one with Joshua in it, yeh its a good ole 80s teen movie but great subject matter, have you seen1983: brink of apocalypse? that is a good one too, whole thing on google vids and YT presumably
2012 - would the u.s gov let this or make this happen to facilitate total societal control??
Globalist Eugenics Cult See Humans as Roaches to be Exterminated: Aaron Dykes Reports 1/2
youtube.com/watch?v=TseFr3lJmME
ill318 6 days ago
Hadashi no Gen is so much more shocking and visual than this. And it's an old cartoon based on a true story. watch?v=2lDFLLKSkUg
Zanmefagalion 1 week ago
well floopsie was trying to tell me the explosion would have no sound. which is bullshit because the videos of the atomic bomb tests have sound. also he was trying to tell me you have no control over where the missle lands. which again people talking out of their ass. that was the real argument
metalfuk1 2 weeks ago
This is what Israel plans for America if they don't comply...
2014Maurice 3 weeks ago
I remember this movie freaked me the f-- out!
We were all scared that Andropov would come after us @ any second.
The cold war was @ another peak & there was lots of paranoia & fear in America.
ABC made-for-television movie of the week ca$hed in on it, BIG time!
IsItEarthYet 3 weeks ago
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"two atomic bombs in a five mile radius? thats poor strategic pointing " LOL! And Kansas City to boot.
bellyman6969 3 weeks ago
So fucking metal
GyrenDeLeonard 1 month ago
good movie
AXEL77ism 1 month ago
two atomic bombs in a five mile radius? thats poor strategic pointing
metalfuk1 1 month ago
@metalfuk1 you can't control it its a ballistic
floopsie666 1 month ago
@floopsie666 well you can control it to some extent its not like you shoot it off and you dont know where the hell its gonna land. "oh sorry canada, we were aiming for congo.
metalfuk1 1 month ago
@metalfuk1 you don't care if you have thousands of them
lamebubblesflysohigh 2 weeks ago
@lamebubblesflysohigh I don't have any?
metalfuk1 2 weeks ago
@metalfuk1. No, that's accurate. Each city would have been hit many times over. US military bases in country areas, and aircraft carriers at sea would have been targeted too. What's less accurate is having mushroom clouds side-by-side not affected by each other's blast. Or having folks turn into skeletons (starting at 0:47).
baobubs 2 weeks ago
@SportsHater09100 why would i go to a place your already at >:)
thaboss1451 1 month ago
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thaboss1451 1 month ago
@SportsHater09100 why dont you shut the fuck up you 9 year old brat.
thaboss1451 1 month ago
Za warudo
mejoeification 1 month ago
People who call the effects in this film "cheesy" need to get a clue. It was made for TV nearly 30 years ago, there was no CGI yet. The whole purpose of this film was to demonstrate for people just what was at stake with the escalating tensions between America and the Soviet Union at the time, not to win awards. The producers did the best they could with what was available, and IMHO they did a damn fine job.
Lotmeister 1 month ago
That's what I call a BANG!!
Vampiregothmother 2 months ago
Compared to "Threads", The Day After looks like a day at Dinseyland.
Diskoboy1974 2 months ago
Disarm all nukes is the best solution for all of us
scatteredmist 2 months ago
@scatteredmist well buddy its unfortunate that people like you are not in control of the highest levels of government in this world. the world would be a better place with you in charge.
anglekan 1 month ago
The message of this movie seemed to be: confronted with Soviet belligerance in the early 1980's, the only option for the Free World was immediate and unconditional surrender.
zooeyhall 3 months ago
1:11 Umm kid rape?
MrStan233 3 months ago
We need to nuke the hell out of the Middle East!
johncase7777 4 months ago
@johncase7777 If you can watch this and want to nuke ANYONE, you've got problems.
randmiller88 3 months ago
@randmiller88 Best nuke them before they nuke us.
johncase7777 3 months ago
@johncase7777 that would be stupid, cuz there is nothing to destroy, but desert, and the people are like cock roaches. they live in caves, and are impossible to kill
theTVchannel1000 2 months ago
@johncase7777 how fucking ignorant!!! YOU HAVE ALREADY NUKED THE MIDDLE EAST. For the next 4.5 billion years Iraq will be a nuclear hot zone. Don't believe me? Check out the babies that are being born in Iraq right now. I tell you, if anyone did that to my baby, Id want to fucking murder them with my own hands.
Happy?
GuitarGirlWA 2 months ago
@GuitarGirlWA Calm the fuck down.
johncase7777 2 months ago
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@johncase7777 Do you feel proud?
GuitarGirlWA 2 months ago
@johncase7777 We need to set C4 around your house and the next time you goto get beer BOOM!
frankiemagzz 2 months ago
@frankiemagzz But I HATE beer.
johncase7777 2 months ago
Threads was better, just sayin'
goatshredder 4 months ago
Look at that! Skeleton outlines! X-rays! Gamma rays! Nice special effects, but a lot of scary.
joe9320 4 months ago
This film made Steve Gutenberg a star! Or at least a victim of radiation poisoning, which was far more hilarious than any of the Police Academy movies.
ApolloScreed2 4 months ago
I first saw this movie when I was like 9 or 10. It scared the hell out of me. A very dramatic movie for a young kid,but it also made me think, hey,....war like this could happen. Like one of the doctors mentioned in the movie, "Stupidity,....it has a habit of getting it's way".
4rlorenti 4 months ago
Threads was better. I first saw them in 1983 and they both scared the pants off me, but then I think I would rather be under the fireball and be disintergrated than to actually survive the living hell that would ensue after a nuke.
Schurtburg 5 months ago
1:33 the American flag is blowing the wrong way. The wind is coming right to left.
javaxsqft 5 months ago 6
@javaxsqft hahaha ...yup ur right
4rlorenti 4 months ago
why do bones never disintegrate?
GRIFF77418 5 months ago
@GRIFF77418 I believe it's something to do do with the amount of Mositure in them? i think and the amount of time and how much heat is pup to them. cheers :)
7071t6 5 months ago
@GRIFF77418 'Never' is wrong, they do disintegrate, just at much higher energy levels than what it takes for the flesh to disintegrate. At the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings, those who were closest to the blast had literally become nothing but black marks in the ground. It's very depressing to think about.
lingojac 4 months ago
@GRIFF77418 They do.
joe9320 4 months ago
After the destruction of the Atomic bomb,People said there was nothing worse.But yet People made something worse.Which it is known as the Hydrogen bomb.
CabooseUGAN 6 months ago
wait a minute. since when are there pine trees that high in kansas city?
poopyy99 6 months ago
back in the early eighties this series scared the living daylights out of people everyone was afraid of a nuclear attack.
doctorw2 6 months ago
“…blatant leftist propaganda.”
--Rev. Jerry Falwell, November 16, 1983
I will never again mention that name and the word "Christian" in the same sentence.
Zickcermacity 6 months ago 7
@Zickcermacity It's surprising anyone ever does. He was being blatantly disingenuous - he was afraid that the movie would prevent nuclear war, which he thought would be the Armageddon that would result in Judgment Day.
Blurgle3 3 weeks ago
this is how people start conflicts up by mouthing off random statments that dont even make any sense and obviously arent true and just bring more conflict and hardship to the subject this person obviously doesent know anything about and should get educated on whats going on in the world before they open their mouths.
their is a few things you need to work on 2 for example are
1. !!!THINK WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SAY BEFORE YOU SAY IT!!!
2. Learn to spell at lease you admitted that you where wrong
notlock3555 6 months ago
You know russia after all is one of the few allies with the U.S And right now it isnt a good idea to piss off one of few allies the U.S has.So follow me with this, In your country the people run the goverment by your constitution, so by that what ever you say you are speaking for your country and its opinion towards others. so by"saying qwote "if we get nuked i blame the russians they suck ball sack" your saying that you dont want us to be your ally and we should not help you when the time comes
notlock3555 6 months ago
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notlock3555 6 months ago
This is child's play compared to Threads.
hotelmario510 6 months ago
"But other than that dear, how was your day?"
SCE2AUX 7 months ago
if we get nuked i blame the russians they suck ball sack . that is y my parent put in aa nuclear / fall out shelter and enough suplies to last 10 years then it should be ok to go out and if we get nuked and russians come i am grabbing a gun and killing every last one ove them and i no i have bad spelling i cant help it dont send me messages a bout it plv thank u
ckleinfelter 7 months ago
@ckleinfelter Don't worry about the spelling mate but all I will say is that you have high expectations if your trying to take on the Russian Army single handed lol, is Rambo your mentor?
bl0xta 6 months ago
if we get nuked i blame the russians they suck ball sack
ckleinfelter 7 months ago
I don't want to set the world on fire....
Knothole 7 months ago
that was the stuff i was freaking out over as a teenager? are you kidding me? a bunch of fakeass special effects and old stock footage of an ATOMIC bomb??? i feel incredibly stupid right now....
zatoth13 7 months ago
@zatoth13 It was a made for TV movie, with a limited budget and with 1982 technology, so I think the special effects are fine in light of those constraints. The scenes of normal USA civilians not only dying during the attack but suffering from radioactive fallout and dwindling essentials afterwards remain terrifying to me at least.
DeadlyRamon 6 months ago
War SUCKS.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 7 months ago
Due to the film being shortened from the original four hours to 2½, several planned special-effects scenes were scrapped, although storyboards were made in anticipation of a possible "expanded" version. They included a "bird's eye" view of Kansas City at the moment of two nuclear detonations as seen from a 737 on approach, as well as simulated newsreel footage of the tactical nuclear exchanges in Germany between NATO and Warsaw Pact troops. FUCK YOU ABC
barf245 8 months ago 2
Nuclear war is best left in the abstract. As long as my series remains in memory, there will be no such war.
thewaryears 8 months ago
Nuclear war fucks up everyone on earth except the people who push the fucking button.
jeffsandychelsea 8 months ago
I think Alan Moore must have seen this movie before he wrote Watchmen. Those skeleton effects are pretty much exactly like what he used.
Btw, did anyone else think a lot of those clips looked really familiar? Were they taken from clips of test detonations or something?
KatjaKat01 8 months ago
1:19 - looked so fake
SophiaVIP 9 months ago
i did a music video to this movie. Awesome classic. hope you guys check it out:) the song is called the Trinity Fire by Asian Will.
WillFielder78 9 months ago
@UrNorsk1987 I agree. If the creators of the film *really* wanted to be graphic, they could've emulated the bombing of Hiroshima, especially what it did to people. Maybe throw in some stop-motion animation of people having the skin melted off their faces, like the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the aftermath scenes, they could've littered the landscape with charred skeletons, shown dazed survivors wandering aimlessly, with melted skin hanging off their bodies, eyes hanging from sockets.
Akira625 9 months ago
This movie is pretty lame now watching it. It was a big deal in the 80s but it's a bit over dramatic (you think????) and it doesn't seem realistic like the army films. I guess they encased film cameras in these thick glass bunkers and the film managed to survived. Nuclear war is going to suck when it happens. Watch an old brit tv documentary 1965 called "The War Game". Netflix has it now. scarey, cheesy FX but has an eerie surrealism to it.
crassology 9 months ago
We were assigned to watch this movie when I was in HS in Vermont when it originally aired and as soon as this scene started I got so freaked out, that my friend and I said the hell with this and switched over to MTV. We were told to watch it if we could deal so I felt ok changing the channel. I still had nightmares. I've actually never seen the whole movie - it still is way too disturbing for me. Growing up during the cold war sucked.
walker328 9 months ago
I have seen this movie just one time and the scene that stuck out was the bomb being dropped and the people melting. That had to be the scene that they showed in the promo. Now it is stuck in my head again.
zshaw7549 9 months ago
@UrNorsk1987 Truth be told, I think having primitive special effects sometimes can be creepier than more realistic effects.
uscjrh 9 months ago
Obama announces war on china
youtube.com/watch?v=rHEduTRk2Lg
Thentheresthetruth 10 months ago
we default on our debt to China? watch out...
RideMyBMW 10 months ago
@RideMyBMW The US has 7% of its debt in China, and China is in no position to take on Russia, let alone the US. China has around twenty nukes that can actually reach the US.
fpsBeaTt 9 months ago
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dudes, ´Merica´s a month away from TOTAL default on its foreign debt. All I can say
iz :Watch out for the fu$#in "repo man" due carries a big fu$#in club.
RideMyBMW 10 months ago
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dudes, ´Merica´s a month away from TOTAL default on our foreign debt. All I can say
iz :Watch out for the fu$#in "repo man", the a-hole carries a big fu%$in club.
RideMyBMW 10 months ago
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RideMyBMW 10 months ago
that is scary
DAVYJonas1 10 months ago
Doesn't it sound like Homer at 1:09?
Rubycon99 10 months ago
wieso war never changes?
people never changes!
we never change us!
this means everything will happen the good things and the bad things and the things between
majk
47846016623 10 months ago
I tell you, such impoliteness at 0:34. Remember to say "Excuse me" when stomping on a little girls back.
genenco1 10 months ago
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I remember when this film was first broadcast, and ABC hosted an on-air panel discussion afterwards, consisting of various scientific and political luminaries. William F. Buckley criticized the production as melodramatic and poor overall, prompting Carl Sagan to respond "For once I find myself in agreement with Mr. Buckley!"
CaliforniaCaledonian 11 months ago
should've ducked and covered.
Zaarin2007 11 months ago
In retrospect, the out-of-date special effects makes this look rather cheesy. (Which is probably why Threads seems scarier; it didn't attempt too much, so the only thing that looks cheesy is the fashion). Still, pretty disturbing scene.
Tzelemel 11 months ago
This left me BADLY shaken...
Orange9464 11 months ago
Whoops, min 1:35 the flag blows one direction and the wind is in the opposite direction.
IExposeMormonism 11 months ago
woud ths really happen if a real nuke went off?
copam07 11 months ago
@copam07 This is, as stated in the end credits, "in all likelihood, less severe than what would happen in an actual nuclear war".
But just as bad. No, far worse. No one could be that close to an exploding nuke and just walk away like Dr. Oakes did on the highway. Everyone else was dead...why didn't he perish also? The heat and blast/overpressure alone from a 1 MT nuke at that close a distance would have definitely killed everyone in a several mile wide radius.
But the effects were horrifying.
riceboy1701e 11 months ago
@riceboy1701e I see what does a MT nuke mean?
copam07 11 months ago
@copam07 MT=megaton, the amount of destructive power in a nuke as measured to the comparative force of TNT. a 1 MT nuke has as much destructive power as 1,000 tons of TNT.
Hope this answers your question! And I hope we never have to see that kind of destructive power actually used.
riceboy1701e 11 months ago
@riceboy1701e thanks for that answer. it really did answer my question and i hope we never see it happen personaly hahaha
copam07 11 months ago
@riceboy1701e Hi, one megaton is actually equivalent to 1 million tons of TNT. one kiloton is equivalent to 1000 tons of TNT. Since most intercontinental warheads used to be in the range of 500 kilotons or more, we're talking about a LOT of f...ing big explosions here.
joergmaass 10 months ago
@riceboy1701e Exactly what I thought. There's no way that Oakes, cowering in his car, would walk away relatively unscathed. Yes, the special effects are dated & too over the top to take this scene seriously. Even though it was mentioned at the end that the real thing would be far deadlier than the film indicated, likely to assuage the viewers at that time in history when The Day After was filmed. The cold war was still darkly threatening in the 80's. Scary lifestyle.
lonelyheroine 10 months ago
@copam07 If you know of any veterans that were around the cold war era, especially during the trinity project and down at the Nevada test range at Yucca Flats, you could ask them.
sr71ablackbird 10 months ago
Wonder what ever happened to that horse.
Finallythankyou 11 months ago
Hey..Stalker....I love to stick those Mushrooms up your Arse!!
So Repent your Sins..Before I send you to hell!
Vampiregothmother 11 months ago
this was a really wicked scene in the movie.
NationalMan 11 months ago
I'm Born 1986.. but as I Got Older My Step Father Showed me this movie "The DayAfter" This is one of my Favorite scary Movies of All Time's And Now I'm About 25 years old.. I Always Wonder about Hollywood Made Sum of all Fears, The day After tomorrow, 2012... What About Remaking This Movie!! But Having it happen on Today's War's on Terror!!!! And What if Nuclear War Happen Today... Please Comment on this what Ask More Hollywood Film maker's on This!!! . ThankYou!!
jjason31npb 11 months ago
It's really a pure American propaganda film of the 80's. But it's great, I love it!
Yann022 11 months ago
Repent, Pray! God Bless you.
2000yrCatholic 11 months ago
This movie always scared the shit out of me when them nukes go off on the highway.
SaberTanker22 1 year ago
@SaberTanker22 The "x-ray" images of the people when the nukes explode haunted me for weeks. I could not sleep after that unless I had a radio under my pillow and a light on. I *still* had nightmares. I was 13 when this was shown on ABC. My grandmother and mother both warned me to not watch it, but I did anyway.
Those were very scary times. Reagan in the White House, and had his finger on the button and ready to push it. So were the Soviets.
riceboy1701e 11 months ago
@riceboy1701e that, they were, scary times that is. (Don't forget the Red Dawn movie either.) Once those Minuteman III's were launched, they couldn't be called back. Who knows with the current Peacekeeper ones that they have now. Not sure if the silos with the 175 ton doors with rockets and rails are still in operative mode at the SAC bases yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. Actually, 2 keys in the silo had to be switched in unison for the missles to be launched.
sr71ablackbird 10 months ago
OK, many people may want to make fun of this trailer / movie, without having any understanding of what this movie meant for the youth of the 80s and its impact on our young minds. It put the very realistic threat of a nuclear holocaust into images that we could only imagine. The movie was made in 1983, without computing imagery like movies today can enjoy thanks to the technology developed in the 80s. It this clear now??? What you have today, you owe to the 80s.
tortoni900 1 year ago
You're asses got saaaaaaaaaacked.....
metemi 1 year ago
This movie is a very poor man's version of Threads......
Steveoqotsa 1 year ago
@Steveoqotsa You have to put it into perspective -- the movie was made in 1983 for TV viewing and it was a huge success. It put the real threat of a nuclear holocaust into perspective. I do not know if you were alive then, but I surely was and I can remember this movie very well, its impact on many young people (like myself), of the decade.
tortoni900 1 year ago
@tortoni900 I am a child of the 80's,was 12 in 83 & remember vividly the constant threat of a nuclear war....i was merely saying i believe Threads to be far superior to this (i have both on dvd).....if you haven't seen it it's well worth checking out,it is on youtube.....
Another thing that's worth a look are the "Protect & Survive" public information films that were shown in the UK in the 80's...also on yt & very scary
Steveoqotsa 1 year ago
@Steveoqotsa No I have not seen Threads and will check it out because you say it is worth it. I do not recall any informational films here in the US like the one you mention Protect & Survive that were shown in the UK. But, the fear indeed was ever present . . . I guess that is why we also had such positive and happy music in the 80s, to get our minds off the possible ill-fate of the world should a nuclear war happen.
tortoni900 1 year ago
@tortoni900 Threads is pretty grim viewing but trust me,well worth it.Happy music yeah along with shocking hairstyles & hideous clothes.....the 80's rocked!!!
Steveoqotsa 1 year ago
@Steveoqotsa I am totally up to the challenge! I looked here on Youtube and I do not know if I am supposed to choose Threads 1984 or Threads Part 1 -- what do you suggest? Oh yes, no doubt the 80s rocked, despite the neon colors, shocking hairstyles, etc. because everything was a reflection of one being him/herself ! the music ultra-rocked!
tortoni900 1 year ago
It's definitely shocking and vicious imagery but look on the bright side. According to this, before our skeletons crumble to ash they'll all do one last dance in unison.
TheBotleyBoy 1 year ago
watching this scene while listening to Sprawl (Flatland) by the Arcade Fire, nearly bawled my eyes out!!
rawrvintageisclassic 1 year ago
This is not a "scene." It's a totally low budget collection of STOCK FOOTAGE. THIS MOVIE SUCKED BALLS.
goodguysdoll 1 year ago
@goodguysdoll Ahh.... I see your point. But keep in mind, no advanced computer graphics and animation existed in 1983.
ycdtotv 1 year ago
@goodguysdoll Easy to say when you only view things from the perspective of someone who grew up watching films that use computer technology to create action scenes. But this is 1983 and back then you were just a newborn, correct? Do not dismiss what was created using the limited computer technology that was at that time just like you, in diapers.
tortoni900 1 year ago
Soviets don't play!
nightflight83 1 year ago
Man, Volvos are tough cars.
kooky216 1 year ago 12
At 1:32 the wind force from the blast is blowing dust and debris hard to the left, but the flag in the background is flapping merrily to the right!
Kauwhaka 1 year ago
plus it smells funny
memobookofsheets 1 year ago
Chilling.
WCWite 1 year ago
they dont understand the term GET DOWN! ITS CRUCIAL!
greg0987654321jyfjdc 1 year ago
Fck usa!destroy stupid americans!!!!
Acidys 1 year ago
@Acidys hey you son of a bitch your country sucks if your russian your super fucked you fucker
jasenrooks2010 1 year ago
ееее так их уродов,жаль что не по настоящему
Acidys 1 year ago
"War. War never changes".
pizudetsu 1 year ago 49
@pizudetsu someone play too much fallout NV !
devilhatehumankind66 11 months ago
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devilhatehumankind66 11 months ago
fire in the hole ! and also you all should check out barefoot gen another movie about nuclear attack
kurox67 1 year ago
fire in the hole !
kurox67 1 year ago
controversial my ass it would be a lot worse in reality.
unltd679 1 year ago
Regan did somethiing that needed to be done. He showed the Russens that keeping all those countries like Poland, was a waste of money. They had to leave for the cost was to great and to protect themselves from the US was useless. We were never goiing to invade Russen. Why? There barely feeding there own people.
tock101 1 year ago
@tock101 Grammar errors abound!
Clay3613 1 year ago
@Clay3613 Hey, if you have been workind with people from a different planet as long as I have and trying to keep them informed about how we are using their tec for our defence. It gets harder everyday to remember your own thoughts.
tock101 1 year ago
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George h.w bush and Ronald reagan saved us
ThisIsAreHouse 1 year ago
well oldtwins , the CIA way back in the 70's had already came to the conclution that communism would fail. The question is, would they go out with a whimper or a bang. Lucky for all us it was a whimper
unclefixer 1 year ago
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99waterlife 1 year ago
I remember the big deal the media made about this before it aired...saying that suicide hotlines were on alert and what not. Totally ridiculous!
xnonsuchx 1 year ago
@1:09 "Son I will shield you from the 500 million degree explosion with my body! You will be the man of the house now. Take care of your mother and sis--" Both vaporize.
TheEmperorofthevoid 1 year ago
I do beleieve if we had a weak democratic president back in the 80's we would have gotten attacked, but ole' Ronnie Reagan scared the shit out of the commies and instead their evil system collasped. Alot of people can thank old Ronnie for beating the communist into submission , now thats not to say that some maniac in the future may not start world war three, I believe it can and will, sooner or later happen.
unclefixer 1 year ago
@unclefixer Umm no, the Soviet Union was already in shambles starting in the 1970s. The system was so full of corruption and inequality that they didn't need anyone's help to shut them down.
oldtwins 1 year ago
@unclefixer - Their system was collapsing already....Reagan only hastened it by a matter of weeks to several months at best (if you pay attention to facts).
xnonsuchx 1 year ago
Steve Gutenberg is the voice of our generation!
loonmaniac 1 year ago
This is the shittiest of shit ways to die in the history of shit on a stick made out of shit buried in shit.
hotelmario510 1 year ago
@hotelmario510 it may be disgusting but at least its so quick its painless
singlaprety12 1 year ago
@singlaprety12 Yes, but at 8 miles you get third-degree burns, at 12 first-degree, and for a long way outside that you get radiation poisoning.
hotelmario510 1 year ago
'Threads' was much more startling than this.
Chanesmyname 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but I can't take this seriously. These special effects are WAY too corny for my 21st century eyes.
mariethebest09 1 year ago
@mariethebest09 You have to open up your horizons my dear. Your 21st century eyes have to be thankful for the technology that developed in the 1980s -- without that, you would not be able to SEE the realistic images (and not so realistic ones), that computer animation gives you today.
tortoni900 1 year ago
@tortoni900 Oh, I know. I appreciate 80s effects for what they were at the time they were created and for their contribution in popular culture. Still, though-- after 24 years of watching buildings explode on film, I'm quite desensitized.
mariethebest09 11 months ago
@mariethebest09 Your point precisely hits on the reality that the youth of today have become so desensitized to seeing images of mayhem and destruction due to the advancement of computer graphics which makes them so realistic, and that is quite alarming. As technology continues to advance and young impressionable minds get exposed to such perfection in imagery, the line that is supposed to define reality and fiction becomes way too blurred.
tortoni900 11 months ago
DROP ONE OF THESE ON THE STATE OF ISRAEL :) AFTER ALL IT WAS ONE ON THERE INVENTION (ROBERT OPPENHIEMER)
the124Lscania 1 year ago
@the124Lscania Aren't you rather overreacting?
Also, if Oppenheimer and his team had not worked out the atomic bomb, someone else would have instead.
There was a nuclear race going on.
TheDutchGhost 1 year ago
FTW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SuperBobafet 1 year ago 7
laff @ 1:10, 'I'll protect this from a NUCLEAR BOMB by tackling him'
DrVoltage1 1 year ago
omg......i remember this on tvi when i was a little girl...scared the shit out of me!!
lavender004 1 year ago
The problem with The Day After is the build-up to nuclear war is virtually non-existent. There is so little tension. Another problem is the nuclear attack is totally unconvincing and looks like a scene from a corny 70's disaster movie. But this film really comes alive in the war's aftermath. A scene that will always haunt me is the preacher, nearly insane with grief, giving a service to a dying congregation
DavyTom71 1 year ago
If you survive...use RadAway.
MatthewStout 1 year ago
This is not war, this is destroying the earth. There is no intelligence in this. No international dispute is worth all of this, nor would disputes be solved. There is no progress in this. This is not right. This is wrong. The missile launchers would die through this, then go to hell for doing it.
VacantLot33 1 year ago
I remember this movie when I was growing up in the early '80's. It was really good and very educational. It would be great as a movie produced for theaters.
jbdream3 1 year ago
One of the best made-for-TV movies I ever watched!!!!!!!!!
jeff1969z 1 year ago
I am now scared shitless!
Kirremazter 1 year ago
Now this is something a country really needs to strive for. Why would any nation want one? Junk em all before some fool pulls the plug on us all.
nucsol 1 year ago 2
haha those effects dont do it justice am sorry, watch threads or the war games
directorlog 1 year ago
@directorlog what the one with matthew broderick? the one thing thisfilm does well is the scenes when bodies are vapourised - very emotive with the sounds, threads is brilliant - love the documentary element to it
utrapzab 1 year ago
@utrapzab the movie is War Games. excellent movie by the way
4rlorenti 1 year ago
@4rlorenti as I say the one with Joshua in it, yeh its a good ole 80s teen movie but great subject matter, have you seen1983: brink of apocalypse? that is a good one too, whole thing on google vids and YT presumably
utrapzab 1 year ago
They only played this once, and it then disapeared. That's the terror it caused.
PETER1069 1 year ago
Still holds up to this day :)
ixnay027 1 year ago 2
@ixnay027 holds up to what? my cock?
joecobra1234 1 year ago
@joecobra1234 And yet it's so small
SlightyDisturbedNBK 1 year ago
Never ever forget - 1983 could be 2012 or even tomorrow. This much more possible than all that 2012-crap currently turning around !!!
giselelabelle 1 year ago
POOR HORSEY :(
athf11 1 year ago
This is a video made with these film.Perfect!!
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Rage Hard
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doormagic 1 year ago
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RichHartley19671 1 year ago
oh my this is Very Scary To think this Could Really Happen, and what Would We Do After , SomeThing To Think About .
VidGuy782 1 year ago